Martin Mattel
Senior Technical Documentation
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarMartin Mattel is a Senior Technical Documentation specialist based in Vienna with 12 years of hands-on experience and a broader +20-year international career spanning innovation, business development and sales. He combines deep technical writing and backend development skills—contributing to high-profile open source projects like ownCloud and Nextcloud—with a proactive documentation approach that influences product design during development. His work improves clarity across configuration, deployment and performance docs while also refining backend code and admin UX, demonstrating a rare blend of developer empathy and commercial insight. Having led business development and enablement roles at Fujitsu, he leverages market-facing experience to make documentation that drives customer success and regulatory confidence. Colleagues value his ability to translate specialist engineering knowledge into auditable, user-focused content that shortens support cycles and de-risks product adoption.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
filesystem10
file-management10
sphinx10
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
php10
go10
nginx10
owncloud10
documentation10
ocs9
yaml9
nextcloud9
file-sharing8
phpunit6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/ocis
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
:atom_symbol: ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1147 reviews, 210 commits, 622 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on updating configuration files and descriptions across various services within the ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack. Their work involved modifying environment variable descriptions, fixing text for array descriptions, and applying suggestions from code reviews. The changes touched multiple configuration files, including those for audit, frontend, and settings, indicating a focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of project documentation and settings. They also updated the environment variable descriptions for groups and users, and the descriptions of the postprocessing service.
owncloudscalerevaatominfinite
owncloud/core
Jul 2014 - Jan 2023
:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 reviews, 216 commits, 219 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the ownCloud web server, with a focus on improving error messages, text adaptations, and renaming of settings to enhance clarity. Their work involved making changes to various backend files related to file caching, external storage configurations, and the setup process. The user also addressed issues regarding the display of server information within the admin settings page.
owncloudweb-serverjstreeself-hostingjavascript
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